Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-02-18
HERE AND THERE.

Flour from Minnesota Is being imported In
TO southern California.
The largest artesian well In the world 10
now being sunk near ST. Augustine, Fla.
Two million gallons OF wine yet remain In
the Anaheim, Cal, cellars awaiting shipment
new variety OF apple pie has hole cut
out Of the center, which Is filed 10 with jelly
The first snow OF the season fell at Tacoma
Washington territory a week ago Sunday.
Thirteen wild turkeys were caught in ona
pen In Upshur county, w. Va, few days
| ago.
Philadelphia has TO licensed push-carts,
which supply everything In the hucksters'
line.
| A frost In San Pedro de las Colchas Mext
co, is said to have destroyed $4,000 pounds OF
cotton.
In Englewald, N. H., live eight pensioners
OF the war of the rebellion who are each over
90 years old.
Daniel spraker, OF Fonda, N. Y, Is the old
est bank president In the United States. he
| is 90 years old.
W. P. Moody, OF Cumberland, N s., aged
| loe years, recently recovered from serious
uttAck Oh Iincts.
! Seven years ago a fire broke out In deep
mine near Virginia City, New, and 1t has been
| burning ever since.
Near Atwater, o., a farmer gathered, last
season, 1,073 bushels OF corn from less than
! eight acres OF land
| Mrs. Carroll, of Macon, Ga, has had charge
OF the railroad switch at that place for the
pest twenty-five years.
A Buffalo, N. Y, newspaper proprietor pre-
sented pair OF mlttens on Christmas day 70
| each Of his newsboys.
The 100000 high school at Syracuse, N T.,
has been condemned by the board OF health on
account Of defective plumbing.
Paper toboggans are said to be great deal
more useful than ether toboggans, as they ara
| lighter and run easier and faster
An Arizona Judge has decided that peace
officers have no right to carry concealed weap-
ons any more than private citizens.
Two White mountain hotels have been open
ed for toboggan parties who want chuteS
surprising all manufactured affairs
1t is said that in the vicinity OF Bowling
Green, KY, there is enough Iron TO supply
fifty furnaces for two hundred years.
merchant at San Diego, Cal, recently re-
celved an order from an interior village for .
bible, bowie knife and pack OF cards.
The battle OF Princeton is 10 be commerno-
rated by the erection Of magnificent monu'
ment on the spot where Gen. Mercer fell.
II is estimated that all Of hundred addi'
tloual monuments will be erected on the Dat
tie field Of Gettysburg during the coming
year
A locomotive used as q swltch-engine at
nellows Falls. Vt, is said TO be the Oldest In
this country, having iirst been usea ouiy 20
ls49.
Members of the baseball club OF Rochester,
". are already in training for the summer
games. They are practiclng In rink now
ever.
Massacnusetts stands second on the list OF
contributors to the Charleston fund. The frst
place, in honor, belongs to the factory girls Oh
Lowell
7, ia said that A person can live cheaper, and
a, The same time more aristocratically, in
Geneva. Switzerland, than in any other city In
the world.
Five Brooklyn policemen, who sued the city
IN recover money taken from their salaries
while thew were sick and off duty, obtained
Judgment In the city court Monday.
For over century the wealthy planters OF
MARYLAND lived in ignorance OF the delicious
ness of terrlpin, and only their slaves ate
them. Now they are glad to get them at oo
cents plate.
A Young man crossed the Hudson river on
/ NJ IN W.
mounted on stills, accomplishing the ehtife
distance, nearly two miles, without a fen, ano
thereby winning wager
In the California penitentiary there are TWO
very old murderers. One is George Jones,
aosd 90 wears. who Killed Lorenz Dutil, ana
NE other Is N. B. Sutton, aged 70 years, the
murderer Of Alexander Martin.
II cost a Brooklyn association, formed ior
,ho nurpose $1,000 last year to start inc
movement for bringing about half-holiday
in that city. One mass meeting alone TOOK
1894 ont of the soclety's treasury.
The candied sweet potato is Philadeipnia
confectionery It is nothing but sweet po'a'
toes car-iy boiled and quartered ana tnen
eanaieti In boiling syrup, but it Is said 70 Do
dainty and tender and OF delicious havor'
,ounp daughter OF Nebraska's senior seq
ator is named Happy New Year Van Wyck'
clerk in one of the departments at Washing
ION Return Jonathan Melgs, and prominent
undertaken at Reno New, Coffin O. Bier
An effort is being made to have the capitai
,r a,,z,,ua moved from Prescott to phenlx.
Prescott. once the most populous and thruty
town in the territory, has deteroratea SO
hat n IA little more than country village.
.mep,s tean is the latest novelty In en-
,.rt ailments at Philadelphia, Pa. The men
roceive with the hostess, and among tne
ruests are men who can conveniently WISH
sucb s,socials'' between the hours OF ana
fP.M. "a
Near Boston, Mass, few days ago ah oia
trsh woman sold her washtub TO party OF
,,aemeu for a target They paid her sl.oo Tor
n afteg they had gone home che went ou' ih'o
the field and brought II back as good as ever
Il was
Sealing operations off Cape Flattery, wash
nptop territory, win begin next month"; lhere
re some ten and tMenty British Columbia
,oats engaged in this work, and the aggfe-
rate value Of their catch is considerable eaeh
GEAR
Tho London school board has decided thas
xben corporal punishmentis necessary !. sna,.
,e administered by the head teacher, anu ''i"'
IN entry Of the fact shall be made In the los.
,ook. A good deal Of discussion has been nsa
;-ss TIE matter.